You Can’t buy DevOps, but you may Need to Sell it
summary
Cites the State of DevOps paper showing 24x faster recovery, 3x lower change-failure rate and 2.2x better employee referral, and links those to concrete practices: automated continuous-delivery pipelines, Puppet/Chef manifests, and feature toggles. Gives disasters as contrast — Knight Capital’s bad toggle deploy that triggered a $400M market loss and an Amazon S3 outage that cost other companies millions while Amazon isolated impact — and recommends repeatable tactics that work: embedding a DevOps team, study groups, lunch-and-learns, and pairing to change behavior.
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- 0:00Intro
- 2:29AGILE WILL MAKE ALL THE PAN GO AWAY
- 3:21THERE ARE TWO REASONS PEOPLE DO THINGS
- 3:47ThoughtWorks
- 4:46HIGH PERFORMERS
- 5:26TRYING TO HIRE PEOPLE?
- 5:40THEY SCIENCED THE CRAP OUT OF IT
- 6:28YOUR COMPETITORS ARE GETTING FASTER
- 6:52YOU WILL HAVE SECURITY ISSUES
- 7:54MANUAL DEPLOYMENTS - RUSSIAN ROULETTE
- 9:11THINGS WILL BREAK, CAN YOU RECOVER?
- 10:04THE COST OF DOWNTIME
- 11:31IDEAS ARE JUDGED 100% ON MERIT
- 12:15TOP DOWN CHANGE WORKS
- 14:47BECOME AN EVANGELIST
- 15:20TAILOR YOUR MESSAGE
- 17:11LUNCH AND LEARN
- 18:44LEAVE HINTS
- 19:25BECOME A DEDICATED CHAMPION
- 19:59FIND INNOVATORS TO HELP
- 20:39ASK FOR HELP
- 21:41CELEBRATE SUCCESSES
- 22:59CREATE A STUDY GROUP
- 24:08HOLD INTERNAL EVENTS
- 25:10MENTOR TEAMS
- 27:08DONT GET DISCOURAGED
- 27:57REFERENCES
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